Fence-loom



P. KESLING.

(No Model.)

FENCE LOOM.

,419. Patented Nov. 1, 1887.

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PERRY KESLING, OF VALTON, INDIANA.

FENCE- LOOiVl.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,419, dated November 1,1887.

Application filed August 23, 1886. Serial No. 211,592. (No model.)

.To 60% whom it may concern.-

succeeding picket is arrangcdwithin said wires; and the invention consists in certain features of construction, hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a strandtwisting machine constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar View of the machine in the position it occupies with relation to the fence during the operation of forming a half-twist in the strands thereof. Fig. 3 is a plan with the machine in the position shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail in perspective of the shuttle.

Like letters refer to like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

LetArepresent the pickets, and B Ba pair of wires forming one strand of the fence, of which strands there may be as many as desired, the machine in this instance being illustrated as constructed to operate upon three strands simultaneously, so as to produce a half twist or coil of each wire of each strand about the other wire of the same strand between each two of the pickets of the fence.

0 represents the main beam of the machine, which is provided with a handle, 0, of which there may be more than one, if desired. From the main beam there extends rigidly as many arms D as there are shuttles E, the latter being pivotally mounted on the arms, as at E. Each of the shuttles may be a solid block pivoted to a side of the arm D, as shown in Figs.

1 and 2, and provided with a wire'receiving slot, E between its end and its pivot, and another wire-receiving slot, E, formed in its end; or the shuttle may consist of two bars, 6 e, pivoted, as at E, so as to embrace the end of the arm D and spaced at their free ends by a block, E", arranged between the bars, as

shown in Figs. 3 and 4. In this latter construction the two slots E are slanted in opposite directions, whereby the unremoved portions E of each bar serve to retain the wire within the slots. If the slots E were in one face of a solid shuttle and oppositely inclined and merged in a wire-receiving hole passing through the block, a Vshaped piece would be removed from one face thereof, and thus it would be unfitted for use as a shuttle; butif the shuttle were made of two separated bars and the slots therein were oppositely inclined and arranged on opposite edges of the bars, then it would be necessary to first insert the end of the wire between the bars before it (the wire) could be passed through both slots. Now, by making the shuttle of two parallel separated bars and forming the slots E at similar (not opposite) edges the wire can be introduced laterally and at any point between its ends. This advantage is furthered by the open end slots, in that the shuttle may be applied at any point on the untwisted strands. In this regard my shuttle is new and capable of use with other means than that shown for oscillating it to form the twist in the strands. On each of the bars D, and extending at right angles thereto, is a gage, D, which rests against the last-inserted picket A during the operation of twisting the strands. In order that the gage shall rest against said picket in all positions assumed by the machine, as hereinafter described, the gage may be extended, as shown by dotted lines D Fig. 3.

This being the construction, the operation is as follows: Taking the machine in the position illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3-tlrat is, with the strand B passing through theslot or slots E and the strand B passing through the slot 1 or slots Ethe main beam is moved downwardly'and to the left and then upwardly in the direction indicated by the arrow a, which movement causes the shuttles E to oscillate, as indicated by the arrows 7) c in Fig. 1, (they being brought under the arms I), as shown by dotted lines :r, Fig. 2,)the center of movement being substantially in line with the pickets A, whereby the strand B is thrown over and under the strand B, and the last picket A is secured in position. Another picket is now inserted, the gages placed against the same,

and the beam 0 is moved downwardly and to the right and upwardly, as shown by the arrow d in Fig. 2, which oscillates the shuttles E in the direction shown by the arrows ef, whereby the strand Bis thrown over and under the strand B, so that a half coil or twist is formed between each two of the pickets.

The dotted circle or arrow 9, Fig. 1, illustrates the path of the wire-containing slots during the first movement of the machine, the path being the same, but in an opposite direction, in the second movement of the machine.

Having described my invention and its operation, what I claim is- 1. Ash uttle for fence-looms, comprising two bars having apertures for a wire and oppositely-disposed slots leading to the apertures, and having a wire-receiving slot in the end of the shuttle, substantially as specified. v

2. A shuttlefor fence-looms, comprisingtwo bars provided with wire-receiving slots in presence of two witnesses.

PERRY KESLING.

Witnesses.

GEORGE A. YoPsT, ISAIAH A. ADAMS. 

